[00:00.53]Tiger sharks.
[00:01.91]A dozen sharks,
[00:03.02]each over three metres long,
[00:04.32]have crossed hundreds of miles of ocean to attend this annual feast.
[00:08.75]Uncannily, these fearsome predators often arrive
[00:12.55]on the same day as the first chicks take to the air.
[00:15.92]Nothing could have prepared these chicks
[00:19.60]for such an encounter.
[00:20.80]Yet, despite looking like sitting ducks,
[00:22.86]inexperienced sharks find them hard to sink their teeth into.
[00:27.18]In an ocean where food is so hard to come by,
[00:31.23]the sharks can't afford to keep missing.
[00:33.08]They must quickly perfect their technique.
[00:36.52]For these albatross chicks,
[00:40.59]running the gauntlet of sharks may seem an impossible challenge,
[00:45.10]but the vast majority make it to a life in the open ocean.
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